I think we can all agree now that US Rationalists are basically all ex-Christians who are looking for the same thing but with the serial numbers filed off.

Tally Labs launched a project called The Writers Room, which let holders of an associated NFT project dictate storytelling elements. That led to the creation of an Ape-focused novel written by Neil Strauss, a New York Times bestselling author.

Somehow I had not heard of this particular idiocy.

Musk is probably unique among Big Tech owners in that he's using his product daily (most people think to the detriment of both Xshitter and his other ventures). He is definitely the person who both directed company resources to be devoted to a GenAI product, and ensured that it doesn't have the "guardrails" his fans and himself decry as "woke".

In other words, no other Big Tech CEO is dumb enough to give the OK to a product that trashes its reputation.

L O and I cannot emphasize this enough, L

Web 3.5.1 - web for workgroups

It’s slowly refining its approach. No-one went for the pizza glue or eating rocks, so…

Reddit still delivers sometimes.

The entire "the world is running out of people" meme is just an attempt to find a non-religious rationale to limit reproductive choice.

There will come a time when the economic tide has receded and we notice that not only were a lot of people swimming naked, they were very very high on drugs too.

I wish I could say "let them fight" but this is bad for the environment and bad for productive uses of energy so it's more a "whoever wins, we lose" situation.

Related:

https://hachyderm.io/@dfeldman/112149278408570324

If you feed AI an MRI, it will happily write a detailed and very convincing diagnosis...

even if the patient is a dead salmon.

The comments are the best part.

And by best, I mean worst.

Thank you for trying!

We also made sure to enjoy our trip and tried some Turkish coffee and petted some of the stray cats." (Awwww),

Well, cats like fish too so this is relevant.

One thing I reflected on after learning about your experiences is the challenge of getting in touch with other, non-EA established organizations

Who knew that acting in a weird, insular manner would hinder the very thing that was attempting to be accomplished?

Just because a Twitter said it's over doesn't mean it's over. Prediction markets still think there's a ~1/5 chance of it being legit.

This is basically the epitome of postmodernism these people love dunking on. There's no external truth, only utterances. When prediction markets have hegemony, that will be Truth.